Springerbriefs in Earth System Sciences

General aspects of Earth System Sciences.- The structural and educational concept in an interdisciplinary researchschool for Earth System Science.- NO2 pollution trends over megacities 1996-2010 from combined multiple satellite data sets.- A brief example on the application of remotely sensed tracer observations in atmospheric science - studying the impact of stratosphere-mesosphere coupling on polar ozone variability.- Contamination of the Western Pacific atmosphere.- Three dimensional model simulations of the impact of solar proton events on nitrogen compounds and ozone in the middle atmosphere.- Evaluation of the coupled and extended SCIATRAN Version including radiation processes within the water: initial results.- Improving the PhytoDOAS method to retrieve coccolithophores taxonomic group using hyper-spectral satellite data.- Primary productivity and circulation patterns downstream of South Georgia: a Southern Ocean example of the "Island mass effect".-Summer sea ice concentration changes in the Weddell Sea and their causes.- Validation of the snow grain size retrieval SGSP using six ground truth data sets.- The Last Interglacial as simulated by an atmosphere-ocean general circulation model: Sensitivity studies on the influence of the Greenland ice sheet.- Simulated Caribbean climate variability during the mid-Holocene.- Oceanic I'18O variation and its relation to salinity in the MPI-OM ocean model.- Ocean adjustment to high-latitude density perturbations.- Continental deformation of Antarctica during Gondwana's breakup.- The inorganic carbon system in the deep Southern Ocean and glacialinterglacial atmospheric CO2.- The significance of the long lived (> 400 years) bivalve Arctica islandica as a high-resolution bioarchive.- Sub-annual resolution of dust concentration and size in different time slices of the NorthGRIP ice core.- Predicting habitat suitability of cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa using multiscale terrain variables. Resource-aware decomposition and orchestration of geoprocessing requests in a SOA framework.- A specification-based quality model to improve confidence in Web services of multidisciplinary Earth system science.- Feasibility study of using a petroleum systems modeling software to evaluate basin scale pressure evolution associated with CO2 storage.